Inclusive Food Systems: Women and Clean Cooking with Nitisha Agrawal.
In the second episode of our Inclusive Food Systems podcast series, we dive into the concept of clean cooking and its connection with women’s health, safety and empowerment, with our guest speaker Nitisha Agrawal.
In the episode, we discuss how the lack of access to clean cooking technology impedes women’s equal participation in economy and society. Nitisha draws from her years of experience implementing programs, to explain the many nuances that need to be considered when designing clean cooking programs, that need to go far beyond just distributing cookstoves. Instead, program implementors need to be mindful of their position as outsiders and ensure that programs are designed in a community-centric manner, without disrupting age-old ways of cooking and being.
About the Guest:
Nitisha is the Director of the Smokeless Cookstove Foundation- a non-profit organisation working towards curbing the problem of Household Air Pollution. She is actively involved with various aspects of the foundation’s training programs and writes extensively on her experiences travelling across the country to spread the foundation’s work.